Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Rivethead

By: Ben Hamper

Narrated by: Joe Don Baker

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Hamper vowed never to be an autoworker. Life had other plans. In the 1970s and '80s, the General Motors assembly plant in Flint, Michigan provided steady work for the town's citizens. But at what cost? The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue-collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a... Read more

Peter the Great

By: Robert K. Massie & John E. Dowling

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 43 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter’s birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of... Read more

Still Talking - Abridged

By: Joan Rivers & Richard Meryman

Narrated by: Joan Rivers

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Picking up where her successful autobiography Enter Talking left off, Joan Rivers delivers a searing and funny account—as only she can—of private tragedy, a public fall from grace, and triumph against all odds. In Still Talking, Joan opens up about her rise to the top, dishes on fellow celebrities, and recounts the end of her treasured... Read more

Warrior for Peace

By: Danaan Parry

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an extraordinary interview on conflict and peace. Parry tells deeply moving stories from his own life - from the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland to his own neighborhood laundromat. They are stories of anger, truth and healing. Read more

Beyond Love - Abridged

By: Dominique Lapierre

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From its first appearance in the late 1970s to the remarkable treatment methods that are now keeping millions alive, AIDS has been a headlining topic for decades. Master storyteller Dominique Lapierre— renowned for his best sellers Is Paris Burning? and The City of Joy— has created his most extraordinary epic of human... Read more

Ryan White - Abridged

By: Ryan White, Greg Louganis & Ann Marie Cunningham

Narrated by: Lukas Haas

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ryan White was a typical 13-year-old living in a small town in the Midwest. Then, it was discovered that Ryan had contracted AIDS through tainted blood products he had been given for his hemophilia. Denied the right to return to school, he went to court. Newspaper headlines followed the many legal battles, and although Ryan won the court case,... Read more

Flashbacks - Abridged

By: Timothy Leary

Narrated by: Timothy Leary

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Timothy Leary (1920-1996) was an American psychologist, educator, and author who advocated the use of psychedelic drugs. His books included Exo-Psychology, Your Brain Is God, and Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out. Read more

Mozart

By: Marcia Davenport

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Realistic, moving, engrossing, and positively brilliant, this biography recreates Mozart, the man and his music, against the background of the world he lived in. For Marcia Davenport, the research and writing of Mozart was truly a labor of love, during which she retraced every journey he made, saw every dwelling (then extant) in which he had... Read more

The Tempting of America - Abridged

By: Robert H. Bork

Narrated by: Robert H. Bork

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A rare, insider' s look into the Supreme Court nomination process.In July of 1987, Judge Robert H. Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan, but by late October that year, his confirmation was denied. In this candid account of his experiences, Bork describes the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing from his point of... Read more

Bootlegger's Boy - Abridged

By: Barry Switzer

Narrated by: Barry Switzer

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A riveting memoir by one of the most successful football coaches in America!As head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners, Barry Switzer was the fourth most successful coach in NCAA history. Both praised and reviled by the media as the "outlaw" of college football, Switzer was characterized as the "greatest rogue, pirate, hustler, and con man" ever to... Read more

Chutzpah - Abridged

By: Alan Dershowitz

Narrated by: Alan M. Dershowitz

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

According to Alan M. Dershowitz, “ chutzpah” is "boldness, assertiveness, a willingness to demand what is due, to defy tradition, to challenge authority, to raise eyebrows." Assessing his experiences, he brings to bear all the chutzpah for which he is famous in examining such issues as antisemitism, assimilation, the... Read more

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 1

By: William Manchester

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 41 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century.His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight into key events that have shaped our... Read more

The Inklings

By: Humphrey Carpenter

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams—remarkable friends, writers, and scholars—met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was in this company that such classics as The Lord of the Rings,... Read more

There's a Country in My Cellar - Abridged

By: Russell Baker

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of America's most beloved social commentators— Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Russell Baker— followed up his bestselling memoir, The Good Times, with this collection of his best New York Times columns, dating back to 1962. There' s a Country in My Cellar covers Baker's usual wide range of... Read more

Wiseguy - Abridged

By: Nicholas Pileggi

Narrated by: Nicholas Pileggi

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan).

This is... Read more

What I Saw at the Revolution - Abridged

By: Peggy Noonan

Narrated by: Peggy Noonan

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ronald Reagan carried a conservative vision of America to the White House, where his administration gave it life. Peggy Noonan followed Reagan to Washington as his speechwriter— and gave his vision voice. As speech writer for George Bush during his Presidential campaign, Noonan dispelled her candidate's "wimpy" image and replaced it... Read more

Elizabeth Taylor - Abridged

By: Kitty Kelley

Narrated by: Susan Strasberg

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Before she became a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already a star, appearing in such films as Lassie Come Home and National Velvet. One of the few child actors to transition to a successful film career as an adult, Taylor starred in such classics as Father of the Bride, A Place in the Sun, and Who' s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In... Read more

Harry S. Truman

By: Robert H. Ferrell

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 21 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Few US presidents have captured the imagination of the American people as has Harry S. Truman. In this biography, Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the thirty-third president, challenges the popular characterization of Truman as a man who rarely sought the offices he received, revealing instead a man who—with modesty,... Read more

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 2

By: William Manchester

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 36 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This second volume in William Manchester’s three-volume biography of Winston Churchill challenges the assumption that Churchill’s finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932–1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors (at one point he had to put up his home for sale), he remained solvent only by writing an... Read more

One Up On Wall Street - Abridged

By: Peter Lynch

Narrated by: Peter Lynch

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual-fund manager Peter Lynch explains the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use these advantages to achieve financial success.

America’s most successful money manager tells how average investors can beat the... Read more

Goldwyn - Abridged

By: A. Scott Berg

Narrated by: Roddy McDowall

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

In 1895, teenager Schmuel Goldfisz left the Warsaw ghetto to become Samuel Goldwyn, one of the most acclaimed producers in Hollywood history. Among Goldwyn' s films are such classics as The Pride of the Yankees, Wuthering Heights, and The Bishop' s Wife— all famous for conveying the “ Goldwyn... Read more

It's Always Something - Abridged

By: Gilda Radner

Narrated by: Gilda Radner

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

To honor the twentieth anniversary of beloved comedienne Gilda Radner’s death from ovarian cancer comes a commemo- rative edition of her memoir, It’s Always Something—featuring a newly updated resource guide for people living with cancer and a tribute by Radner’s former colleagues at Saturday Night Live.

As a cast member on the original Saturday... Read more

Hollywood Anecdotes - Abridged

By: Paul F. Boller Jr.

Narrated by: Debbie Reynolds

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What do legends Groucho Marx, Bette Davis, W. C. Fields, and Alfred Hitchcock have in common? They are just four of the luminaries mentioned in Hollywood Anecdotes, the definitive oral history of film's Golden Era. Educational and entertaining, here are authentic and apocryphal anecdotes about the American movie industry and various aspects of... Read more

The Mermaid Man - Abridged

By: Marion Watson

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Viewing Hans Christian Andersen's boots and travelling bags at his museum in Denmark in 1986, triggered an idea for a script about his life to be done for Audioscape. His shyness and rather off-putting appearance did not win him many friends, yet eventually, the crown-heads of Europe solicited his presence. Millions since then, have... Read more